THE BLOOD OF JESUS
Most Christians know about the blood Jesus shed for us. When Christ lifted the cup at the last Passover, He said, "This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you" (Luke 22:20).
We memorialize His sacrifice every time we have communio ... read more
The Blood of the Lamb Has Power
Jesus came as one blood sacrifice, and the blood of this Lamb has power. Power to cleanse, power to heal, and millions upon millions around the world have experienced the glory and the power of this cleansing blood of Jesus Christ.
We serve the living ... read more
THE BODY OF CHRIST
The apostle Paul instructs us, Ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular (1 Corinthians 12:27). Then he says more specifically, As the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members
being many, are one body: so also is Christ (12 ... read more
THE BOLDNESS OF A LION
Jesus Christ has left me an inheritance and I claim it as mine. Scripture says, "The righteous are bold as a lion" (Proverbs 28:1). If you can accept this truth of the perfect righteousness of Christ, you will have the boldness of a lion. You will never a ... read more
THE BOUNTIFUL SERVANT!
Recently I went to the Lord in prayer very heavyhearted, laden down with many cares. I began to plead my case before Him:
Oh, Lord, Ive never been so weary in all my life. I can hardly go on! Then I began to weep. I was so exhausted the tears litera ... read more
The Breaking Point
Growing numbers of Christians are at the breaking point. Young people, especially, are giving up in defeat. They feel they cannot live up to the image of a happy-go-lucky, rich, successful, always positive-thinking Christian. Their world is not that ideal ... read more
THE BRIDE OF CHRIST
What would a man think if his bride-to-be invited him to her house, sat him in the living room and then went her way? While he waits, she works in the kitchen, dusts the furniture, mops the floorsand never says a word to him!
Jesus endures the same pa ... read more
The Bridge Between Earth and Heaven
As the shepherds gazed on the Babe in the manger, they saw a Savior who would redeem all of humankind. When the wise men beheld him, they saw a King who would conquer death. And when the prophets looked ahead, they saw an Emancipator who would open prison ... read more
THE BURDEN OF HIDDEN SIN
The burden of hidden sin King David carried for an entire year cost him dearly. It broke his health, plagued his mind and wounded his spirit. It created havoc in his home, disillusionment in God's people, mockery among the godless. Finally, he cried out, ... read more
THE CHURCH AT EPHESUS
The Christians at Ephesus walked closely with the Lord. As I read through Paul's letter to the Ephesians, I am amazed at the gospel these people heard and lived. In fact, Paul compliments them at length. He addresses them as, "The faithful in Christ Jesus ... read more
THE COMING STORM
When a sleeping child must be awakened, a loving parent takes him by the shoulders and gently shakes him. If the child doesn't wake up immediately, the shaking becomes a bit firmer. The parent insists, because he knows the child will suffer if he doesn't ... read more
The Complete Work of Faith
The devil loves to tell you that you’re no good, useless, weak. He tells you that you are a total failure and will never measure up to God’s standard. On top of that, he wants to convince you that God is angry with you.
These are all lies that come ... read more
THE CONFRONTATION OF THE CROSS
Let me show you what I mean by the confrontation of the cross.
Consider a man who is fed up with his sinful habit yet he continually falls deeper into its clutches. He has promised himself a hundred times he will never do it again — and, for a while ... read more
THE CRISIS AT THE RED SEA
The Old Testament lists many times of testing for God's people. Perhaps the greatest example was the crisis at the Red Sea. This crisis was completely arranged by God, set up by His very own commands to Israel. Scripture says that it was God who hardened ... read more
The Danger in Worldliness
Many voices in the church today say Christians must show a new kind of love. They are talking about a love in which biblical truth must bend with the times. According to their gospel, no personal changes are necessary when one accepts Christ. Indeed, no r ... read more
The Danger of Neglecting Prayer
Christians seem to have a hard time praying. They spend their days worrying, fretting, because they don’t have an answer to their problems. They talk to friends, seek out counselors, read self-help books, listen to podcasts, almost anything to avoid get ... read more
THE DAY OF CHRIST IS AT HAND
Paul wrote, We beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Chris ... read more
The Delight of God
God spoke to Isaiah about a certain servant who delights his heart: “Behold! My Servant whom I uphold, My Elect One in whom My soul delights” (Isaiah 42:1). Who is this one whom God sustains and upholds, guarding his every step? Who is his chosen, his ... read more
The Deliverer
The Apostle Peter tells us, If God
spared not the old world, but saved Noah
bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes
making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; ... read more
The Demands of Faith
What is it about faith that keeps demanding of us greater testings? Just when we come through one trial that proves us faithful, our heart declaring, “Lord, I will trust you for everything,” here comes another test, increased in its intensity. This ex ... read more
The Demands of Faith
When God says to humankind, “Believe,” he demands something beyond reason. Faith is totally illogical and its very definition has to do with something unreasonable. Think about it: Hebrews says that faith is the substance of something hoped for, the e ... read more
The Devil Flees When You Move Towards Jesus
As followers of Jesus Christ, we are to be constantly aware that the devil is out to destroy us. Therefore, Paul says, we need to know as much as we can about the enemy’s tactics and plans “lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignora ... read more
The Devil’s Instigation
You are probably familiar with the story of Job in the Old Testament. If so, you remember that Satan could not touch this godly servant of God without first obtaining permission from heaven. The Lord told the devil he could afflict Job’s body, he could ... read more
The Devil’s Lies About Hope
What can God’s people do to move the heart of the Lord in these perilous times? Is the church powerless to do anything? Are we to sit and wait for Christ’s return or are we called to take drastic action of some kind? When all around us the world is tr ... read more
The Enemy on Every Side
Satan is deceiving many in Christ’s Body, causing despair and confusion, and he is not being challenged in God’s house. Why is that? Too many sermons today focus on meeting the needs of people rather than on living a victorious life in Christ. Preache ... read more
The Exceeding Danger Of Unbelief
To whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief
. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the liv ... read more
THE FACE OF GOD
One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after (Psalm 27:4). King David knew there had to be more to knowing God; he sensed there was something of the Lord he hadnt obtained, and he would not rest until he found it. He said, in short, Th ... read more
The Family Altar
A complaint among Christians all over the world is, “I can’t find a good church anywhere! I need a place where my family can be ministered to and where my children can grow up knowing true righteousness.”
Too many pastors are constantly trying ou ... read more
The Famine Brought on by Unforgiveness
Forgiveness is not just a one-time act but a way of life, meant to bring us into every blessing in Christ. “I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecut ... read more
The Famine Has Begun (excerpt)
Behold the days are coming when I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, but a famine of hearing the word of God.
God’s plan for either shaking a nation, redeeming a nation or warning a nation has always been the preaching of the word ... read more
The Father Has Been Revealed
In the Old Testament, the children of God had just a glimpse of God as their Father. David said, “As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear Him” (Psalm 103:13). Isaiah called God “Everlasting Father” (Isaiah 9:6), and Jere ... read more
The Father Knows
Jesus calls us to a way of living that gives no thought about tomorrow and puts our future wholly into his hands: Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these t ... read more
THE FATHERS KISS
A great blessing becomes ours when were made to sit in heavenly places. What is this blessing? Its the privilege of acceptance: He hath made us accepted in the beloved [Christ] (Ephesians 1:6). The Greek word for accepted means highly favored. That ... read more
THE FATHERS LOVE
Many people find it difficult to think of God as a loving Father. They see Him through eyes clouded with the pain of past experiences with an ungodly father or stepfather.
Thousands of Christians do not believe God loves them because their earthly fath ... read more
The First Work of the Holy Spirit
The prophet Isaiah prophesies what happens when the Holy Spirit falls upon a people. “The Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is counted as a forest” (Isaiah 32:15). He is saying, ... read more
THE FLOW OF OBEDIENCE
It is important that we understand the motive out of which our obedience springs, because if the spring is not pure, everything that flows out of it will be polluted.
The sad truth is that many Christians in these last days obey God only because they a ... read more
The Forgiving Love of God
Many Christians joyfully tell others of the love of Jesus and his power to forgive their sin, and yet they find it difficult to fully accept that same forgiveness. They commit sin and seem to want to pay for their failure. “Lord,” argues the Christian ... read more
The Forgiving Nature of God
At times David suffered greatly under the Lord’s chastening rod. He was afraid the Lord had utterly forsaken him because of his sin, a thought he could not bear, and he pleaded with the Lord, “Let not the floodwater overflow me, nor let the deep swall ... read more
THE FOUNDATION OF FAITH
What foundation is your faith built upon? Scripture tells us faith comes by hearing, and that Gods Word gives us spiritual ears, enabling us to hear (see Romans 10:17). Well, heres what the Bible says about the wilderness experiences in our lives:
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The Glorious Voice of the Lord
The devil does everything in his power to make his voice heard in this world. At one point he even had the audacity to interrupt Jesus while the Lord was speaking in the synagogue: “Now there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit. And he c ... read more
The Glory of Christ in Us
“[Moses] said, ‘Please, show me Your glory.’ Then He said, ‘I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you.’ … ‘So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of t ... read more
THE GREATEST DANGER
The greatest danger we all face is not being able to see Jesus in our troublesinstead we see ghosts. In that peak moment of fear when the night is the blackest and the storm is the angriest, Jesus always draws near to us, to reveal himself as the Lord of ... read more
THE GREATEST TEST OF ALL
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided (Exodus 14:21).
Before the Israelites was a path that would lead them t ... read more
The Guiding Holy Spirit
When Scripture says the Holy Spirit abides in us, it means Gods Spirit comes in and possesses our bodies, making it his temple. And because the Holy Spirit knows the mind and voice of the Father, he speaks Gods thoughts to us: Howbeit when he, the ... read more
THE GUIDING HOLY SPIRIT
When Scripture says the Holy Spirit abides in us, it means Gods Spirit comes in and possesses our bodies, making it his temple. And because the Holy Spirit knows the mind and voice of the Father, he speaks Gods thoughts to us: Howbeit when he, the Sp ... read more
THE HARVEST OF THE SPIRIT
"He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?" (Galatians 3:5).
Paul says that God measures out the Holy Ghost to us and He does so not according to o ... read more
The Heathenism Of Worry
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek) (Matthew 6:31-32).
Jesus tells us that worryabout the future of our family, about ... read more
THE HERMIT CRAB
King David, the author of so many Psalms, grew weary of his struggles. He was so tired in soul, so embattled and beset by troubles, all he wanted was to escape to a place of peace and safety: My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death ar ... read more
THE HOLY GHOST IS RECEIVED BY FAITH!
This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? (Galatians 3:2). Saints, this message should ignite your faith, and by faith you should lay hold of Gods great promises! Let him ask in faith ... read more
The Holy Spirit Is at Work
Too often Christians want to keep the Holy Spirit confined to their own small world but Jesus said he would pour out his Spirit on all flesh; not just believers but nonbelievers, as well. “I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh” (Acts 2:17). Jesus ... read more
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